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Source 7.93. “The new penal colony” extract from Spanning time (Power et al.,<br />

1985, p. 182).<br />

In a section titled Topic: The First Fleet in The modern world emerges (Lawrence et al.,<br />

1986); only one reason is outlined for Britain’s presence in Australia. This is to establish<br />

Australia as a penal colony—a place to transport British citizens due to the overcrowding <strong>of</strong><br />

British jails. The two other reasons <strong>of</strong>ten cited (with primary source documents to support<br />

claims), for Botany Bay to act as a trading port and Australia as an area to build sails from<br />

flax are not mentioned. Ignoring these important reasons for the voyage <strong>of</strong> the First Fleet fails<br />

to communicate to students the complexity <strong>of</strong> the considerations that were taken in making<br />

the decision to set up Australia as a colony <strong>of</strong> Great Britain. In addition, it fails to provide an<br />

accurate representation <strong>of</strong> the facts <strong>of</strong> the colonisation, instead reinforcing common<br />

Australian folklore that sees the transportation <strong>of</strong> convicts as the sole reason for colonisation.<br />

7.21 Category 8: Federation<br />

7.21.1 Discourses <strong>of</strong> multiple perspectives.<br />

Discussing Australia’s Federation in 1901, Great Britain is presented as the leading factor<br />

used in debating both for and against the type <strong>of</strong> Federation Australia would finally form. The<br />

extract reads:<br />

The political system<br />

Before 1901, there were two distinct groups pushing for a united Australia:<br />

• those who believed in maintaining close ties with Britain and keeping the<br />

British monarch as the head <strong>of</strong> a united Australia<br />

• those who believed in cutting ties with Britain, having no monarch, and setting<br />

up the new nation as a republic. The Bulletin magazine strongly supported this group.<br />

(Lawrence et al., 1986, p. 276)<br />

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